Ofotbanen Drift AS, trading as Ofotbanen, was a Norwegian passenger and freight railway company. The company operated a fleet of six locomotives, three multiple units, 22 passenger and 48 freight cars. The sole service was the passenger train Unionsexpressen between Oslo and Stockholm; it had previously offered freight haulage on contract.
El 13 hauling a passenger train
The El 13 and Di 3 are the haulage locomotives used by Ofotbanen.
Ofotbanen has three Class 68 electric multiple units
The Union Express at Lillestrøm
The Ofoten Line is a 43-kilometre (27 mi) railway line in Narvik, Norway. It runs from the Port of Narvik to Riksgränsen on the Norway–Sweden border, where the line continues as the Ore Line via Kiruna and Gällivare to Luleå. The Ofoten Line is single track, electrified at 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC and has seven stations. The line only connects to the rest of the Norwegian railway network via Sweden. The main traffic is up to 12 daily freight trains operated by Malmtrafik that haul iron ore from Sweden to Narvik. In addition, CargoNet operates container trains, branded as the Arctic Rail Express (ARE), and Vy Tåg operates passenger trains, including a night train to Stockholm.
Malmtrafik train hauled by twin Iore locomotives
Riksgränsen Station, at 523 metres (1,716 ft) above mean sea level, in 1906
The Port of Narvik in 1924
NSB El 12 locomotive hauling an ore train
